More than half of patients who undergo abdominal/pelvic CT scans receive unnecessary imaging tests that put them at risk for radiation-induced cancer, according to new research from the University of ...

May 15, 2006 — Abdominal and pelvic computed tomography (CT) and pelvic ultrasound (US) cross-sectional imaging are effective tools for detecting the cause of acute pelvic pain in nonpregnant women, ...

After a baseball collision, a 51-year-old man presents with bradycardia that progresses to shock; imaging finds a large ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body's internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

Unenhanced CT was about 30% less accurate than contrast-enhanced CT for the evaluation of acute abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED), a retrospective study showed. Of 201 adult patients, ...

A 27-year-old male patient presents to the emergency department with severe abdominal pain that has persisted for 3 days. He says he is otherwise in good health. He has had no change in bowel habits ...

How do I know which radiologic tests to choose when evaluating abdominal pain? — Dorothy Malone Rising, ANP, CDE, Johnson, Vt. Contrast is required whenever there is a differential of cancer. If a ...

Dr. Josephine Henderson-Frost (Medicine): A 66-year-old woman presented to a community health center affiliated with this hospital for an initial evaluation and to establish care with a primary care ...